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Grand Committee
Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Tue 04 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) Networks will be required to offer connections only to projects that have planning permission and are - Speech Link
2: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) It is absolutely right to put those gateways down there in terms of planning permission, your supply - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) of the planning system worked, so there is more to do on that. - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) How will this impact consumer bills? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) conditions, many years after they have obtained that planning permission. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Of course, environmental protection must remain a central consideration in planning, but, as my noble - Speech Link
3: None This is holding up many developments across the country that already have planning permission. - Speech Link
4: Lord O'Donnell (XB - Life peer) These arguments were made at the GLA planning stage, and the environmental case won the day. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Planning permission will not meet targets if it is not acted on. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025 - Thu 30 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) permission, bypassing the local planning authority entirely. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Further, government departments have historically struggled to secure local planning permission for some - Speech Link
3: None This period will be 30 days if the development is subject to an environmental impact assessment. - Speech Link
4: None permission is sought. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage part three - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, or(c) any environmental delivery plan made under - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage part two - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) , as it is only that impact and the associated environmental obligation that are being discharged through - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) As I said, any impact not addressed through the EDP is subject to a separate assessment. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Many conservation measures, such as in relation to wetlands, will not require planning permission. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) If “environmental impact” in Clause 55 embraces all the ways in which a development might impact negatively - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) permission should be refused.Where relevant, legislation such as the environmental impact assessment - Speech Link
2: None .(4) The planning authority may only take a cumulative impact assessment into consideration in accordance - Speech Link
3: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) to make the cumulative impact assessment to the planning authority. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) They will now need to do an environmental impact assessment, a habitats regulations assessment and a - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None ,(b) environmental impact assessment and habitats assessment,(c) the exercise of any functions within - Speech Link
2: None ) In this section “planning permission” means—(a) a planning permission under Part 3 of this Act, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) permission would not invalidate an existing planning permission, even though they related to the same - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) It may also be the case that larger developments need to apply for retrospective planning permission - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) impact as part of any wider assessment, as the impact will be materially outweighed by the actions taken - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Heathrow: National Airports Review - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None “With permission, I will update the House on the steps this Government are taking to realise the benefits - Speech Link
2: None Crucially, the expansion must align with our legal, environmental and climate commitments. - Speech Link
3: None New environmental and climate obligations have been introduced, and patterns of travel have changed. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con - Life peer) This is a red herring, because so much has been stopped by these environmental arguments. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) As for local environmental impact, especially noise, the policy continues to run counter. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) In the process, subsection (1) of the new clause would require an impact assessment of the local government - Speech Link
2: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) The environmental impact is absent. - Speech Link
3: None flood defences, for example; other mechanisms and provisions in our planning and environmental protection - Speech Link
4: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) At present, even a listed community site can be granted planning permission for demolition or redevelopment - Speech Link
5: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) We think that it is ultimately up to local planning authorities to consider planning applications in - Speech Link